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form the arrangement is the same, and the child who has the cheap Sunday-school Hymn-Book has the authorized Supplement of the Church Hymn-Book, and is thus far prepared to sing with the congregation. It is to be hoped, however, that every child will, sooner or later, possess the Hymn-Book of the Church, including the Supplement, and thus be furnished at once for domestic and public worship in all their forms,

It is due to those whom we would train up for God, that their lips should be early taught to show forth his praise. Being encouraged from childhood to join in public nets of devotion, their hearts will be sweetly and powerfully attracted to the cross, while their minds will be imbued with the saving principles of religious truth. Thus the tender associations of early life may be made to contribute to the piety of mature years, and to the sacred consolations of hoary age.

Thus, too, the Church of Christ may be es tablished, ever having in her children the earnest of her extension, and the pledge of her perpetuity.

**At a joint meeting of the Editors and Book-Committee, the duty of preparing this Supplement was assigned to the Editor of Sunday-school publications. His labour has receiv ed the official sanction of the bishops.

New-York, 1849.

CONTENTS.

EARLY PIETY-INVITATIONS..

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MOTIVES TO EARLY PIETY............... BLESSINGS OF EARLY PIETY............. 12 PRIVILEGES AND DUTIES OF THE YOUNG. 15

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HYMNS.

EARLY PIETY-INVITATIONS.

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O come, let us worship.

COME, let us join the hosts above,
Now in our youthful days;
Remember our Creator's love,
And lisp our Father's praise.

2 His majesty will not despise
The day of feeble things:
Grateful the songs of children rise,
And please the King of kings.

3 He loves to be remember'd thus,
And honour'd for his grace;
Out of the mouths of babes like us,
His wisdom perfects praise.

C. M.

4 Glory to God, and praise, and power, Honour and thanks be given!

Children and cherubim adore

The Lord of earth and heaven,

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Christ's Invitation.

C. M.

OUR

UR Saviour bids the children come;
He bids us come to Him;

And, as in other days, he spreads
His arins to take us in.

2 Forever blessed be his name;
No earthly love like his!

O may it draw our hearts to him,
And to the world of bliss!

3 There may we come at last, to sing
In nobler strains his praise;

And join the little ones, who stand
Before our Father's face.

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Come to Jesus."

COME to the mercy-seat

Come to the place of prayer; Come, little children, to His feet, In whom ye live and are!

S. M.

2 Come to your God in prayer-
Come to your Saviour now-
While youthful skies are bright and fair,
And health is on your brow.

3 Come in the name of Him
Who all your sorrows bore-
Who ever lives to pardon sin,
And will be sought by prayer.

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MOTIVES TO EARLY PIETY.

I am to live forwer.

C. M.

HE sun that lights the world shall fade,
The stars shall pass away;

But I, a child, immortal made,

Shall witness their decay.

Yes, I shall live when they are dead, Though now so bright they shine; When earth, and all it holds, are fled, Eternity is mine.

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